Metaphysics

Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we truly understand it? Do we know what it means to say that one thing is a cause of another and do we understand what in the world drives causation?...

Is the world hierarchically arranged, incorporating 'levels' of reality? What is the nature of objects and properties? What does 'realism' about ordinary objects or states of mind demand? When an assertion is true, what makes it true? Are natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384076Author Jean BorellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This is a shockingly new view of 'things' that will revolutionise contemporary ontological debates about substance. What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposed derivative...

New translations of the central mediaeval texts on the problem of universals are presented here in an affordable edition suitable for use in courses in mediaeval philosophy, history of mediaeval philosophy, and universals. Includes a concise...

Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873731Author Martin HagglundFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

How do things persist? Are material objects spread out through time just as they are spread out through space? Or is temporal persistence quite different from spatial extension? This key question lies at the heart of any metaphysical exploration of the...

When a doctor tells you there s a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean? Understanding probability is clearly very important, if we are to make...

Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form.About the AuthorAlfred North Whitehead (February 1861 - 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.Book InformationISBN...

Four-Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persistence over time, new arguments in favour of the four-dimensional ontology, and responses to...

Robert Pasnau traces the developments of metaphysical thinking through four rich but for the most part neglected centuries of philosophy, running from the thirteenth century through to the seventeenth. At no period in the history of philosophy, other...

This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current debate, including the Consequence Argument, manipulation...

What is the self? Does it exist? If it does exist, what is it like? It's not clear that we even know what we're asking about when we ask these large, metaphysical questions. The idea of the self comes very naturally to us, and it seems rather important,...

Aristotle MetaphysicaBook InformationISBN 9780198145134Author Werner JaegerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 375gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 129mm * 22mm

"The Analytic Thomist," Rob Koons, delivered the 2021 Aquinas Lecture at the University of Dallas. Here he engages the possibility of a bridge between philosophy and metaphysics proper. Koons boldly lays out his position: without Aristotelian...

This collection of 13 new essays shows what Baruch Spinoza can add to our understanding of the relational nature of autonomy. By offering a relational understanding of the nature of individuals centred on the role played by emotions, Spinoza offers not...

Social ontology is the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality. It is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of philosophy and social science that has the potential to greatly assist social researchers of all kinds. One of the...

When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she encounters a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, and talking animals. Everything there is inside out and upside down: so it is with consciousness. ...

Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought-those that explicate how we in fact think-must be...

What does reality encompass? Is reality exclusively physical? Or does reality include nonphysical--mental, and perhaps 'abstract'--aspects? What is it to be physical or mental, or to be an abstract entity? What are the elements of being, reality's raw...

Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His most celebrated work, Naming and Necessity, makes arguably the most important contribution to the philosophy of language and metaphysics in recent years. Asking...

Godsends is William Desmond's newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology. For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project-replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar,...

Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648499626Author Daniel BrancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.Much of early environmental ethics was born out of the belief that the ecological crisis can only truly be solved by overcoming a...

Argues that morals and politics require on a metaphysical backing and proposes a neoclassical metaphysics.Morals and politics depend on a metaphysical backing. All reality is marked by certain necessary features and a divine purpose inherent in all...

Develops a theory of culture based on a metaphysics that elaborates on the Platonic and Confucian traditions.In Metaphysics of Goodness, Robert Cummings Neville extends Alfred North Whitehead's project of cultural studies, which was based on a new...

Virtual reality is genuine reality; that's the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of "technophilosophy," David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class...

A bold, systematic account of the role of repetition in shaping modern subjectivity for Kierkegaard, Freud, and Lacan.Repetition and Subjectivity offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between Kierkegaard's concept of repetition and the...

There has been a surge of recent interest in a family of phenomena that may broadly be described as emergent. This includes much lively and ongoing debate concerning whether any kind of emergence can be accommodated within a functionalist framework,...

There is a widespread idea that we experience our world as if it is other than a block world; as if, instead, our world is dynamical and time passes in a robustly A-theoretic manner. In light of this, some argue that there is good reason to think that...

In Phases of Objects, Justin Mooney argues that all objects should be treated like children: just as a child can cease to be a child without ceasing to exist when it grows into an adult, so can a clay statue cease to be a statue without ceasing to exist...

Scientific and philosophical inquiry often assumes that systems can be studied in isolation, yet real-world systems are never truly closed. They constantly interact with their environment, exchanging energy, information, and matter. This openness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783465043454Author Alexandra ZinkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Verlag Vittorio KlostermannPublisher Verlag Vittorio KlostermannWeight(grams) 336g

Anil Gupta here offers a systematic account of the concept of truth, with a particular focus on the role this concept plays in metaphysics. He examines functions the concept serves in everyday thinking and mounts, on their basis, an argument for a...

This book challenges the widely accepted philosophical principle of parsimony, which holds that theories lacking simplicity are inherently doubtful. It critically examines this principle in its unqualified form and explores various ways to present it in...

Contemporary metaphysics is most commonly approached in a piecemeal fashion, not systematically. Even those philosophers who end up with a metaphysical system tend to tackle issues one at a time, and do not presume that doing metaphysics systematically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554817153Author Stephen A. SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398840379Author Rene DescartesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 165mm *...